While the concept of a ‘sharing economy’ is gaining popularity in modern societies, in Eastern Indonesia it is a traditional way of coping with daily life. Based on her fieldwork in Sumba, Jacqueline Vel outlines some of the difficulties that researchers and...
In het voormalige Nederlands-Indië is structureel massageweld gebruikt en zijn oorlogsmisdaden gepleegd door Nederlandse militairen, met medeweten van de...
Oral history is a promising source for further research in the KITLV project on Dutch military operations in Indonesia between 1945 and 1950. Interviews with Dutch war veterans give new insights into the use of ...
“Is it true you never lay a hand on a book?”, “Then what do you do all day?” These are very common questions for Marije Plomp, the newly appointed subject librarian of South and Southeast Asia. ...
Last year, Gert Oostindie published a book about the Dutch military in the Indonesian Revolution. He is now touring with Ireen Hoogenboom, who contributed greatly to the book, in Indonesia to promote the translated...
The two-volume special edition of Jurnal Wacana – Stories and Storytelling in Indonesian – edited by Clara Brakel, Susi Moeimam and Tom Hoogervorst (KITLV) is now online available! The two volumes delve...
This workshop in May 2016 discussed a new type of village studies in Indonesia. The 2014 Village Law will likely cause a considerable change in the character of...
Van Michiel van Kempen verscheen afgelopen zaterdag het boek Rusteloos en overal; Het leven van Albert Helman. De biografie is het fascinerende levensverhaal van de eerste belangrijke migrant-schrijver...
Door voormalig KITLV-fellow Anne-Lot Hoek: 'Iedereen wist het, maar niemand kon het zeggen'. "Oorlog werd ‘politionele acties’, structureel geweld werden ‘excessen’. De manier waarop Cees Fasseur en andere ...
'Rengat, 1949 (Part 1)': Dutch paratroopers massacred hundreds, perhaps thousands, in a Sumatran town during the Indonesian Revolution, yet nobody outside Rengat seems to know. Read more ...